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Child care by grandparents
— changes between 1992 and 2006 | | Author(s) | Teun Guerts, Theo van Tilburg, Anne-Rigt Poortman |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 35, no 6, July 2015 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, July 2015 |
| Pages | pp 1318-1334 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Grandparents as carers ; Grandchildren ; Longitudinal surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | This study considers changes in child care by grandparents between 1992 and 2006 in relation to changes in mothers' need for and grandparents' opportunity to provide child care. Data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) are used to compare two cohorts of Dutch grandparents aged 58-68 (N=181 in 1992; and N=350 in 2006). Multi-level regression analysis shows that the probability that grandparents care for their adult daughters' children (N=261 for 1992; N=484 for 2006) increased from 0.23 to 0.41. The increase can be ascribed to higher maternal employment rates, growth in single motherhood, reduced travel time, and a decline in the number of adult children. The increase would have been higher if the employment rate of grandparents had not risen. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150626019 A |
| Classmark | P6:SW: SW5: 3J: 76H |
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